[GNC] Tabs Behaviors in GNC4.1

[D.]

Thanks for pointing this bug out. 

It's too bad that the suggestion in the bug to discuss this change on the lists was not apparently taken up. The devs would then have at least heard from some other users about their use cases and preferences, and users would have had a heads up about the change. Instead, a change gets pushed out based on one person's request, mainly because it involves "three lines of code." I'll set aside the wisdom of making changes to software based primarily on the complexity of the fix, or on a single user and the opinions of three devs... 

While it might seem overkill to discuss something as seemingly minor as this change, I think *any* change in the user interface should be discussed more, rather than less. 

Now, we get to have that discussion.

At the risk of repeating myself, let me re-present. In my usage of Gnucash, I keep a core set of tabs always open. These tabs represent my primary active accounts: my checking account, savings account, credit card account, and a cash account. 

I leave them open because they are involved in the vast majority of my transactions, and it is easier to click on one of the tabs than to go to the CoA, locate the account, and open it. I like to have them at the top of the list at all times because I can quickly locate them there. I know where they are. 

With the latest change, I no longer can rely on this. My core tabs move down. If I open one of my more obscure accounts to look at things, it pushes its way in at the top. If I've opened several of them, they are all at the top, and when I am done with those tabs, I have to carefully close tabs, rather than close all tabs below a certain point on the screen. 

None of this is particularly catastrophic, but it does affect me and my workflow every time I open or close an account, so I would prefer to have the option of restoring the old tab behavior. 

The idea of pinned tabs is interesting, although it doesn't remove the need for the preference. If I jump to a new account tab from a pinned one, will the new tab go at the end of the list, or bury itself in the middle of my pinned tabs? I think the user would still want the option of where the new tabs open. 

I'll give a clear and unambiguous preference: I want to be able to choose this behavior with a preference setting. Put this setting on the same page as the tab location setting, and have it read:

Open new tabs: □ At the bottom of the tab list □ After the current tab

David T. 


-------- Original Message --------
From: Geert Janssens <geert.gnucash at kobaltwit.be>
Sent: Wed Sep 16 03:35:35 EDT 2020
To: "D." <sunfish62 at yahoo.com>, gnucash-user at gnucash.org
Cc: Gnucash Users <gnucash-user at gnucash.org>, Stan Brown <the_stan_brown at fastmail.fm>, David Carlson <david.carlson.417 at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [GNC] Tabs Behaviors in GNC4.1

Op woensdag 16 september 2020 01:21:19 CEST schreef 
David Carlson:
> It doesn't make sense to me either, and since it is a change 
from previous
> behavior, I  think it deserves a bug report.

https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=797787[1] 

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[1] https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=797787